Is it stigmatizing to be a Freegan?

After seeing DR2s TVshow about food waste, it was time to take matters into own hands and jump off as "Freegan".

For an old city-boy, it was a trip back to a youth with daily visits to the garbage containers for anything that could be used. I had, in short, no difficulty in putting on my headlight, and running the city thin after food from containers. And there was lots to do, see the images here:

I'd get a kick out of doing this a couple times a week, no doubt. The next day there was great joy in the little family. There was fruit for the entire kindergarten, there where chocolates and snacks for the whole weekend, there was food for most of a week. A cool thing to do on so many levels, environmental, household economy wise, minimised waste fee to the supermarket, the list is long.

And then the serpent in paradise came creeping. What is the neighbor thinking? With two small children and a dad / blogger who does not care, there will probably not be long before it´s out there. Particularly not when the same father / blogger are passed up by an official of his local usupermarket, whilest having his head well down in the same supermarkets container. As I write, they are probably laughing high in the backroom.

But what about the fact that there is now a local in the area, who gets food out of a container? It would be no problem for a student, but for a 38 yearold family man? What things will be said about his children if / when their environment gets wind of it? In the big city, you can maybe hide a little better, it may even be that people in cities are more indifferent to what the people next door are doing at night. Our family is, however, live in extremely rural location, out there where you have time to marvel atothers' behavior. It will be exciting to see what happens, if anything.

It is in any case not the last time FOOT FULL have played superhero at night, relieffood, the environment and its own madbudget.

The OPUS-project - halftime is wake up time

Yes we can. Or, I think so.OPUS project has been launched in just over 2 years now and the first results start to be harvested, this was what SHOPUS Business College on a sunny Thursday in late September, was about.But as the seminar progressed, it became clearer and clearer that the research and documentation will soon have to share the driving seat with action. Even though all research projects in OPUS all are pointing in the same direction; new Nordic food (NNM) is healthier than the normal Danish diet, there must soon  be put action behind, if the new Nordic project to provide better health, better income opportunities and better madforståelse among Danes .By Erik Rasmussen, Mandag Morgen, so beautifully said, "if NNM is a viable and world-renowned project about 3 years, you may as well find something else to do."
Quick recap of the seminar.There were reports from some project SHOPUS who have had a group of Danes to buy into the dogma of NNM in half a years time. Masses of not yet completed studies show now that NNM diet endnog is very much healthier than a typical Danish everyday.The sociological part of SHOPUS were also a headline, although the results were far from finished, it showed the initial results that it is mostly well-educated younger women who seem to Nordic roots, seeds and fruits were delicious, while less educated men from the provinces are the most skeptical . Yes, there are many exciting aspects of studies, but these fact are still obvious.
Then it was time for speakers.After culinary Judith Kyst from the newly formed Culinary Culture again had given the somewhat lofty thoughts to gather Danish work with food and culture, it was a relief, indeed a relief to hear Monday Morning's founder, Erik Nielsen swing his whip over all this facination of documentation. Hebeautifully drilled his  fingers deep into the matter; how do we put all this (common) knowledge into use? He would focus on "the knowing-doing gap", ie how to translate all this knowledge into real action.?And more importantly, who does it and when?From this point on,  the seminar changed it´s tone. All who spoke hereafter, then, remained to this fact, "how and whenWe were many who breathed a sigh of relief when we heard Kim Fleischer, from Public School Food Project project within OPUS, Karsten Kolding from FDB and last Claus Meyer himself, all commentating on this action problem as the first, when they got word of their presentations. It was so important a point that they had to do it. We were sitting up there, would have their positions and they had to give it directly and outside the manuscript.And although people from OPUS-project, as a whole, all still celebrating their research, were the questions that end of the day were asked from the audience, all directed at this one point; action, what can we do now?
Research is important, it is the foundation stone, but can you act without final results? Is it not to run with half the wind?
Nope, not when it comes to such obvious results, and certainly not when it comes to something as important as food / nutrition / health. For although one can prove clinically that cabbage is better than white bread, it's actually something we all already know. When, a few years ', states that the children in OPUS' Skolemad project has had health and learning benefits of NNM, there are many who, once again, can nod. Yes, it is good enough.
But why wait for the numbers? The only ones who benefit from it, the food industry that has long since given up trying to nourish and now just want to minimize expenses. With the newly introduced fat fee, we, as people turned yet another (big) step back from being able to regain power over our own food.
It's time for political action against silly laws that are the direct damage and a lot of inconvenience for all parties. From a libertarian point of view, there is only need rules, when the community is threatened. To sit the preliminary results from OPUS ignored, to impose taxes as with oily, ignoring an agriculture whose production processes are outdated and dangerous, a danger to the community. In a violent eco-anarchist revolution would be the first to smoke out behind the shed and got a bullet through his head, be they who were guilty of poisoning our food. Fortunately we need not resort to any form of violence when we have strength as OPUS with us. They will deliver the results to skrankepaverne.But who is going to keep skrankepaverne to fire? That each of us and we might as well start with today.

So here's the plan for this blog's humble writer.I take Erik Nielsen 3 years for me. About the last 3 years I will be among the flock of teachers and trainers who opens the doors for a "farm to fork" school. The school will, if it is within the law, would be based on the free colleges principles. It will have 2-3 tracks giving socially disadvantaged young people to be training ready to go to agricultural schools, food programs, etc. The school will have animal husbandry, agriculture, education in all aspects of food creation process and we will have regular guest teachers from the best minds in madverdenen.
About the last 3 years ....

Is it worth educating about food to youngsters?

School season has come and gone and this teacher has turned the educational attitude up. Is it really worth it to just try to tell 16 years of broccolli and chives are not the same, just because they both are green? Granted, it can be a burden to have to repeat the most basic things over and over a school year through. It is not for today's youth, to listen for hours. They´re surfing porn rather than recipes online and they're in the middle of a rebellion against all adults. In addition to the students at our school neither God's best or worst children, they often have more important things than the history of Italian cuisine to worry about. And here lies the gift of a teacher, to meet the pupils a day without having to expect anything and be continually amazed at their immediacy and sudden engagement. A commitment through out the year that becomes both routine and independent initiatives.
On a broader level, it should give the reason valve serious consideration of our values. The example of students who do not know the diference on cauliflower and broccolli are not fictional. It belongs to the exception that we get students who have had their time in a vegetable garden or can split a chicken in 10 parts without being disgusted. It is not inside the children we must find the problem, they are simply the result of the last 50-60 years of impoverishment of our food and culture.
A culture, no longer received in our homes, but then at least in Food Temples around?


These Food Temples that appear in magazines and food programs, must surely carry the torch high. Here we can surely look for when our own knowledge is gone.


No, actually, it´s the other way around; they feed on the deroute. We´re at a level  where we even in restaurants are presented to the Spanish fritatta and a tapas kitchen witch is closed. Maybe not two obvious examples, explanation, comes here. Frittata is an Italian egg dish (and not Spanish, though Wikipedia claims it), but not everyone knows this. But do restaurants not keep a straight and high level of iformation,are the cosumers really screwed.
The example of tapas kitchen has closed, is even more serious.

 Tapas are Spanish bar snacks, finger food. These are very simple dishes such as tortilla, chili sausage, sardines in vinegar; this sort. The commen factor with these dishes is precisely that they are ready to be served from disk. The guest chooses his favorites, the bartender serves. A tapas cuisine can not close because there is talk about food is already finished. This is what Danish retaurants meets with their guests,; misinformation. In addition to long waits, uneducated servant staff and uncoordinated delivery of food, those kind of things. Restaurants that should be examples for their guests, obscene instead of welcoming guests and makeing them even have to pay for it. This summer had agricultural organizations even the audacity to propose that we as a state, supported this indebted industrial economy. And yet, at the sam time, with the Danish government has been dragged to the EU law, on charges of providing illegal fallow support 750.000000. Similar audacity you have known since inventing some prejudices about Italians and Greeks, to match. No, the Danish agriculture has wagered and lost. Masseprodution is not viable in a country the size of Denmark and should soon be settled in favor of organic farming. With agriculture's greed and lack of willingness to involve the surrounding community, it has lost. 3%, this is the first farmers work souls back total workforce. In the worst "hit the fringe" municipalities, agriculture is the dominant activity. the creation of our food is distanced in a way never seen before.

The end is near and therefore calms the answer also ligefor; we must break this death spiral for the Danish food culture by inventing it. We import food as never before, we finished eating cooked food like never before, we lie we buy organic and industrial chicken like never before. We must keep up with. Our children and youth need adults to show good examples to think about this. As responsible for ourselves and our children, we should consider how many cases of allergies, diabetes and obesity we will find from our creator.